Debtors Quotes

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

Germany will always do the minimum to preserve the euro. Doing the minimum, though, will perpetuate the situation where the debtor countries in Europe have to pay tremendous premiums to refinance their debt. The result will be a Europe in which Germany is seen as an imperial power that will not be loved and admired by the rest of Europe - but hated and resisted, because it will perceived as an oppressive power.

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.